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THE STORY

Fear. Doubt, worry, stress. Uncertainty. They took their best shot at owning us all this past year. And we did our best to put mind over matter and power our way through it. The human mind is a marvelous thing. It has limitless capacity for thought, creativity, wonder, and resilience. It is like a musical instrument -- expressive, emotional, expansive, and transformatively challenging to master. And yet, it can only truly hold tightly to one thing at a time -- like a cello can draw out a thousand different feelings from focusing on one note at a time. That’s why fear can’t coexist with faith, doubt crowds out hope, worry pushes away peace, and uncertainty won’t share any space with contentment.

We believe music is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. We’ve always insisted on how underestimated it can be. Music can persuade the mind to change moods, trade mental despair for motivation, or even push our physical frames beyond a presupposed capacity.

Before this album project began we were sitting around a table together ruminating over all that has happened this past year. As we talked about what was “next” for TPG, we went through several scenarios. Then, suddenly, there was this tidal wave of insistent ideas. A rush of collective revelation. We knew what kind of music we wanted to create for this album.

We wanted to make music that would help the mind hold onto good things. To CHILL out. To be present. To forget its lack of power over the past and its fretting over the future and just be here. Now. To focus on one note at a time in order to better perform at peak potential.

Being present is tied to faith and personal power. Faith and personal power begin with how you talk to yourself. And how you talk
to yourself is indisputably influenced by your soundtrack -- your personal playlist. When you push play on any kind of music, your mind’s ability to hold onto one thing or another is either boosted or inhibited.

We hope this album is the kind of music your mind needs -- familiar melodies couched in a context musically engineered to help your mind CHILL, crowd out the clutter, and instead hold onto the good things. To be powerful. It doesn’t take peaks in volume and fast paced motion running every which way at once. Power can come from simply being still. Being CHILL.

We offer up this album prayerfully, with all our hearts, presently mindful of our unending love and gratitude for you. It is dedicated to a loving Heavenly Father and Mother who have been so supremely patient with us as we’ve strived to be “instruments” in their hands -- to let go, be still, and play one note at a time with sincerity. Despite a wrong note or two (or three), we know they still love us. And we know they love you. We hope you can hear that in this music.
With love and mindfulness,
Al, Jon, Paul & Steve